RABITTI1969
In 2015, GIOBAGNARA acquired the famous Italian
saddle leather specialist RABITTI.
Rudi Rabitti, who launched the company in Milan
in 1969, was a pioneer: his was the frst brand to offer
a wide array of home accessories in this type of leather.
He quickly won an international reputation.
With RABITTI1969, GIOBAGNARA is expanding
its offer, both by revisiting the house archives and
creating new collections.
Because saddle leather is thick and particularly sturdy,
it needs no reinforcement and makes it possible to create
objects entirely in leather.
GIORGIO BAGNARA,
FOUNDER AND CEO
OF GIOBAGNARA
Born into a family renowned for cultivating for three
generations the art of living, Giorgio Bagnara became
passionate about his calling at a very early age.
In the late Nineties, after noticing that leather from the
fashion industry was not considered enough as material
for home accessories, he founded GIOBAGNARA
with the goal of applying it to a complete collection.
As time passed, he estabilished numerous partnerships
with names in the feld of design, such as the one with
Stéphane Parmentier, who was appointed as creative
director of the GIOBAGNARA brands in 2017.
Along with his wife, Vanessa, he frst moved
his design studios and workshops in the old docks
of the Port of Genoa and, later, in a renowned historical
building near Genoa's Marina where, surrounded by the
essence and beauty of that location, the company took a
signifcant step forward.
